✨ Postal Registration Correspondence
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for the Registration from the United Kingdom
to Nova Scotia.
I annex a Table showing the several British
Colonies and the Foreign Countries to which
Letters sent from the United Kingdom may at
present be registered, and the amount of the
fee in each case.
I request that you will inform me, at your
earliest convenience, whether your Government
is willing to assent to these proposals.
I have, &c.,
H. LABOUCHERE;.
Governor Gore Browne, C.B.
TABLE showing the several British Colonies and
Foreign Countries to which letters, sent from the
United Kingdom, may at present be registered, and
the amount of the fee in each case:—
| Colony or Foreign
Country. | Registration
Fee from
United King-
dom. | Observations
| s. | d. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong, Gibraltar, Malta, Antigua, Baha- mas, Berbice, Demerara, Dominica, Grenada, Hon- duras, Jamaica, Mont- serrat, Nevis, St. Vin- cent, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, Tortola and To- bago |
0 | 6 | | | France and Algeria, or the following countries, the correspondence of which is forwarded, as a rule, through France. viz., the places in Turkey (A) Sy- ria, or Egypt, at which France maintains Post- Offices, Luxemburg, Ba- den, Bavaria, Wurtem- burg, Sardinia, Switzer- land, Salonica, Tunis, and Tangiers, Tuscany, Parma, and Modena, Papal States, Two Sici- lies, and Greece | | | (A) Alexandria, Jaf- fa, Beyrout, Tri- poli in Syria, La- takia, Alexandret- ta, Mersina, Rhodes, Smyrna, Mytilene, Darda- nelles, Gallipoli, and Constantino- ple, including Scutari | | Any of the following coun- tries, if sperially, ad- dressed via France, viz., the Netherlands, Prussia, (B) German States, Han- over, Saxony, Mecklen- burg-Schwerin, Mecklen- burg-Strelitz, Brunswick, Oldenburg (the Princi- pality of Birkenfeld ex- cepted); Anhalt, Austrian Dominions, Servia, Den- mark, Moldavia, Walla- chia, Turkey in Europe (the places at which France maintains Post- Offices excepted) via Austria, Sweden, Nor- way, Poland, and Russia | An addi- tional amount exactly equal to the amount of postage British and Foreign. | | | Prussia, or any of the fol- lowing countries, when not addressed via France, (C) German States, Han- over, Saxony, Mecklen- burg-Schwerin, Mecklen- burg-Strelitz, Brunswick, Oldenburg (the Princi- pality of Birkenfeld ex- cepted) Anhalt, Austrian Dominions, Servia, the Ionian Islands, Denmark, Moldavia, Wallacia, Tur- key in Europe, (the places at which France maintains Post Offices excepted), via Austria, Sweden and Norway | 0 | 9 | |
Any of the following coun-
tries, if specially ad-
dressed via Prussia, via
Luxemburg. Baden, Ba-
varia, Wurtemburg,
Sardiniay Switzerland,
Papal States and Greece
Belgium and the Nether-
lands
| Russia and Poland | (D)1 | 0 | 6 | (D) a registered let- ter for Russia and Poland is lia- ble to three fees, viz., d. British 6 Prussian 3 Russian 3½ but this last (the Russian fee) in- creases according to the weight of the letter, 3d. being charged when the letter does not exceed half an ounce; 7d when it weighs more than half an ounce, but does not exceed one ounce, and SO on; according to the British scale |
| United States | 0 | 6 |
Note—This Table is only applicable to Letters addressed to
the several places specified when sent through the United
Kingdom.
General Post Office, London,
20th February, 1857.
SIR,—The Postmaster-General considers it
desirable that, under the new plan of com-
pulsory prepayment of postage, some general
rule should be laid down with respect to re-
directed Letters.
A Letter arriving from New Zealand ad-
dressed to this country, and redirected back to
the Colony, should now, in the ordinary course,
be treated as a Dead Letter, in consequence of
the postage due for its conveyance hence to
New Zealand not being prepaid, and should be
returned with other Dead Letters to Auck-
land.
As this course, however, would only lead to
the return of the Letter to the writer instead
of to its delivery to the person addressed,
while neither the Revenue of this Office nor of
the Colonial Post Office would benefit by this
proceeding, it seems advisable to come to some
understanding on the subject.
The Postmaster-General proposes that, in-
stead of treating such Letters as Dead Letters,
they should, in future, be forwarded in the
Mails without charge, leaving your Office to
collect and retain the postage due for their
conveyance. .
At the same time, His Grace desires me to
request that you will be so good as to cause a
like course to be adopted at your Office with
respect to Letters originating in England,
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Letter registration, Postmaster-General, British Colonies, security, Mails
- Gore Browne (C.B.), Recipient of correspondence
- H. LABOUCHERE
- Postmaster-General